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Archives for 1976

Read – I Wish That I Had Duck Feet

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Today I finished reading “I Wish That I Had Duck Feet” by Dr. Seuss

I did not like this book.

I did not wish I had duck feet.

I found the premise rather odd.

It wasn’t the rhyme, nor the beat.

I just was happy with how I was, by God.

Bath-time experimentation

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The amount of water filling a glass that is tilted in the water goes down as the glass fills up. Must be because the glass becomes more upright.

The rate at which a glass moves from flat to upright as it fills up is dictated by the height of the glass.

A glass with a quantity of water in it set spinning in a bath will spin for a time from the amount of water in the glass and the size of the glass.

The size of a glass determines the amount of work to start spinning. Something to do with the glass touching the water slowing it down or making it sticky?

The size of a glass determines how quickly it will come to a rest after it has been set spinning given a fixed amount of liquid in the glass.

Bath time

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The amount of air inside an upside-down glass says how fast the glass will go up [raise] in the water.

The amount of water in an upside-down glass says how hard the glass is to lift out of the water.

The higher the water outside gets above the level of the water inside of an upside-down glass increases the amount of work required to lift the glass out of the water.

Read – Fox in Socks

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Today I finished reading “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss

Update from the adult Justin: I can remember the exact day that I read this because I was given this book on my birthday and I read it that night in my bed, aloud, to my Father.

Fox in Socks and Green Eggs & Ham are still my two favourites.

A purrfect fit

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Have you ever noticed how the holes in a cat’s fur are always in the right place for them to look out of?

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